Motivational Quotes

Children

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

- Chase, Alexander

Best Quotes about Children

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

In great countries, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents want to make them into adults. In vile countries, the children are always wanting to be adults and the parents want to keep them children.

Ruskin, John

Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

Proverb, English

Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.

Saki

One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

Orwell, George

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Plutarch

Never have children, only grand children.

Vidal, Gore

Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.

Bill Watterson

10.

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.

Keillor, Garrison

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Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.

Davis, Bette

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Ignorance... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

Eliot, George

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Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turning into them. For this they may be forgiven much. Children are bound to be inferior to adults, or there is no incentive to grow up.

Larkin, Philip

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Children always turn to the light.

Hare, David

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A three year old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

Vaughan, Bill

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You see much more of your children once they leave home.

Ball, Lucille

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The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant--and let the air out of the tires.

Dorothy Parker

18.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Angelou, Maya

19.

What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

20.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin

21.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Tracy, Brian

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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary.

Capp, Al

24.

The child is the father of the man.

Wordsworth, William

25.

Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does.

26.

Children are poor men's riches.

Ray, John

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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

Friedan, Betty

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Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Mary MacCracken

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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Jones, Franklin P.

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

32.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

33.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Waitley, Denis

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Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

35.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Anna Quindlen

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Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

37.

There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Children are our most valuable natural resource.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Harrison, Jane

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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A child is fed with milk and praise.

Lamb, Mary

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Anatole Broyard

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Wen I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man I put away my childish things. [I Corinthians]